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Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque

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Cap. xiii. xiv.] DE NUGIS CURIALIUM. 21<br />

habitum, distractumque prius tempore, scilicet militiee, singularis<br />

aninii copiam adeptus etiam quietem adegit, in unum coUectis<br />

viribus, se subito poetam persensit, sua quomodo lingua, scilicet<br />

Gallica, preciosus effulgens, laicorum Homerus fuit. Hee mihi \<br />

utinam inducise ne per multos diffuses mentis radios error soloecismum<br />

faciat. Hie jam Cluniacensis monachus jam dicto Im-<br />

berto filio suo, licet vix impetratus ab abbate et conventu, totam<br />

terram suam, quam idem filius per potestatem hostium et suam<br />

impotentiam amiserat, armata manu restituit. Reversusque, de-<br />

votus in voto persistens, diem suum felici clausit exitu.<br />

Item de quodam alio monaclio Cluniacensi. xiiii.<br />

At aliter alii longeque miserabilius contigit viro nobili et facundo,<br />

qui similiter ejusdem loci monachus simili modo casu eodem ne-<br />

cessario revocatus ad arma, multa bellorum infortunia magnifice<br />

fortique perpessus animo, a fractura semper novus renascebatur ad<br />

prselium, et quasi redivivo furore succensus acerbior involabat in<br />

hostes, et sive fugerent sive resisterent eis indefessus adheerebat<br />

ut glutinum ; et cum numerosa manu sperassent eum hostes op-<br />

primere, fortitudine non multitudine vinci didicerunt. Exardentes<br />

igitur in iram, multiplicatis exercituum viribus, inopinum in arcto<br />

duarum rupium surripiunt, conclusumque fere tenebant. Nulla<br />

spes apprehensis, salus nulla compressis ; eoque segnius agebant<br />

quo securius. Ille autem inimicorum in medio, turbinis instar in<br />

pulvere, quasi tempestas deseeviens, dispergit hostes, et tanta vir-<br />

tute stupidos reddit, ut in sola videant salutem fuga. Imminet eis<br />

impiger ille cum suis in respectu paucis ; milites autem adversee<br />

partis innumeri, ut dominos suos ab ipso salvarent, facti sunt<br />

unius prseda monachi. Unus autem capitalis ejus hostis, cum jam<br />

evasisset, per circuitum properans praecessit eum, suisque j)er-<br />

the Bibl. royale at Paris, from which an secular life. The information here given<br />

imperfect edition was published by M. by Waiter <strong>Mapes</strong> is quite new. The MS.<br />

Jubinal in 1834. This poem contains has Belloioco, probably a mere error of<br />

several allusions to his conversion from a the scribe.

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